Tipping Point and Your Local News

In Malcolm Gladwell's article "From The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference", he approaches the article with an example of a small company item, Hush Puppies, and continues to show that the trend over time becomes more and more popular, just with the help from the few people that initially wore the shoes. He continues on proving his point that it's the little things in life that create the greatest impact and make the biggest difference without many people knowing. He proceeds on in his essay to use more examples including smoking and also how the media has an effect on many of the trends and little things that eventually become more popular. He explains smoking not as a popular trend arising that will make people cool but rather as an action that cool people do. Due to the media influencing many of the consumer's minds, mainly the younger popular, allows the trend to become more popular by having a good amount of them wanting to aspire to be like the younger generation. Gladwell goes on to explain that Hush Puppies would not be as popular without the younger generation of kids. In the other article "Your Local News-Dateline Delhi" by Barbara Ehrenreich, the idea of outsourcing is at hand and the author has a seemingly negative perspective of it. She gives her opinion and list of examples of why she does not agree and does not believe in companies outsourcing with each other. She seems to have an intense opinion towards this topic and also seems to assume that her readers know and are updated on the current information of outsourcing, when she probably should have gave more back ground information on the subject.